Fight, White

‘fight’,

easy way to type it: waelaenuu

Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

IPA

[ wæ·lǽnu ],

then

[ wæ·lǽnu ],

then

[ wæ·lǽnu ]

[ wæ·ˈlænu ],

then

[ wæ·ˈlænu ],

then

[ wæ·ˈlænu ]

Fight and White: In this interview
segment, we get to hear the Milluk verb that means ‘white’ for the second time
in the interview. That is because Lolly
misheard what Swadesh was asking for in this interview segment. Both here and in the interview segment
‘White’ we can hear that there are two different ways to pronounce the Milluk word
meaning ‘white’ in Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk.

Link
to the Sound File: Click on the link below to get to a page where there is a complete sound file of this interview segment, where Swadesh and Mrs. Metcalf get it straight that she has also said the Milluk word meaning 'white'. As a bonus you can hear the Coos Bay Milluk word meaning 'fight' twice more.

Instant Phonetic Englishization: wheh_lann_noo, where wheh is like the
English word ‘whack’, minus the ck, lann, is like the Englsh word ‘land’, minus
the d, followed by noo which is like the Englsh word ‘new’.

Fight
and White: Lolly said [ kʌs ] ‘white’, then [ x̣ ],
which is just the beginning of another version of that word. We get to hear Swadesh say [ kʌs ] ‘white’. They subsequently get it straightened out that
[ kʌs ] is one version of a Milluk word meaning ‘white’. It is clear in the sound file here that [ wæ·lǽnu ] means
‘fight’. For two complete versions of
the Milluk word meaning ‘white’, [ x̣kʌs ] and [ kʌs ], in Lolly Metcalf’s Coos
Bay Milluk, see the interview segment "White".
There are also two parallel ways, [ x̣qʌs ] and [ qʌs ] that Annie Miner
Peterson had to say that same Milluk word meaning ‘white’.

Three
Ways to Say ‘fight’ in Hanis and Milluk Combined:In the Milluk texts that Annie Miner Peterson
dictated to Melville Jacobs, there is no Milluk word meaning ‘fight’ to match
the Milluk word meaning ‘fight’ that we hear from Lolly Metcalf in this
interview segment.Instead, there are
two rather different Milluk words that mean ‘fight’ in the Milluk texts.However, in a Hanis text, there is a Hanis
word that means ‘fight’ which is very much like the Milluk word meaning ‘fight’
that we hear from Lolly Metcalf in this interview segment.The Hanis word can be heard in a passage of fluently
spoken Hanis by Mrs. Peterson, recorded phongraphically in 1934, where she says
[ wǽ·læʔni ] ‘they fought’.There, she
tells the same story that we can read in the published Hanis text which is
titled, “The walkers and winged things fought”, in Jacobs’ (1940) volume of
Coos texts, on pages 232-233.